how to monitor the status of fan of hp dl380 server

[nieaicai]

i can moniter many status of windows 2003 by snmp
but can not moniter the env status of my server

can any body tell me how to moniter the status of fan power temperature and the physic disk ?

i try the snmp but not found the oid, does ipmi works? but how i get the status of powers on os windows 2003?
tks very much !

[nieaicai]

can any body tell me how to moniter the status of fan power temperature and the physic disk ?
i try the snmp but not found the oid, does ipmi works? but how i get the status of powers on os windows 2003?
tks very much !

how to enable the ipmi function under the windows 2003 ? by install the drivers of ipmi??

[KS-Soft]

Probably this question should be addressed to HP support team but I hope the following links will help you:

HP IPMI Controller Driver for Windows Server 2003 x64
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Te ... ac796a16b3

May be you will need to install Microsoft patch for IPMI server management system
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912134

Some tips regarding IPMI Driver for HP Proliant or Blade Servers
http://www.tricksguide.com/ipmi-driver- ... rvers.html

HP ProLiant DL380 manuals
http://www.manualowl.com/m/Hewlett-Pack ... nual/96183


Also, there are MIB files for HP devices
http://www.oidview.com/mibs/11/md-11-1.html


On the other hand, I think you must have some disk with drivers (and manuals) specific to your system...

Regards
Alex

[nieaicai]

thanke you so much you are so kind !!
I WILL READ your links you supplied first..
but in fact we have kinds of server not just include HP ..
but also dell and IBM.
I tried to moniter my servers ( mainly power / fan/ temperature/ physic disk status not logic disk ) by snmp but i found i can not found the valid oid, but i can found other much oid such as disk usage / cpu usage..)
than it is said that we can monitor the ( mainly power / fan/ temperature/ physic disk status ) through IPMI, the main problem is that i do not have any idea how to moniter the status of my server by hostmonitor .
i still do not know why can not monitor the status by snmp, snmp is so useful powerful!!

[KS-Soft]

Yes, SNMP is pretty fast and does not use much resources. You just need to find MIB files that come with your hardware and find correct OID or compile MIB file using MIB Browser
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mibbrowser/index.htm

Some IBM systems support the following counter for fan speed
1.3.6.1.4.1.2.3.51.1.2.3.<fan index>.0
(iso. org. dod. internet. private. enterprises. ibm. ibmAgents. netfinitySupportProcessorAgent. ibmRemoteSupSnmpMIB. monitors.fans.<index>.0)

On the other hand, you may check CPU Usage, Free Disk Space on any Windows system using built-in test methods (these tests work over RPC and WMI and use more system resources)

Regards
Alex

[nieaicai]

i will try to find MIB files that come with my hardware

wmi is usefull way
I saw CIM_PowerSupply CIM_Fan CIM_TemperatureSensor by wmi explorer
but can not view the value of instance I can view most of other value by wmi explorer
do you know how enale the attribute of CIM_PowerSupply CIM_Fan CIM_TemperatureSensor ..? is that because of ipmi function is off ?

tks again !!!

[KS-Soft]

As I understand CIM classes are abstract classes, you should work with Win32 classes.
Microsoft says: "The CIM_PowerSupply class is derived from CIM_LogicalDevice. WMI does not implement this class."

Win32 classes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx

Regards
Alex